Command spokesman, Alabo Alfred, said the move was to prevent a breakdown of law and order in the state.
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Speaker Moses Sule read Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s communication during plenary on Friday,
Daniel told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Jos, the capital city that he weighed all options available, consulted widely, and decided to pitch a tent with the Labour Party.
Sanda stated this when members of the Jere National Development Association paid him a courtesy in Jos on Tuesday.
A statement by the Press Secretary to the Speaker, Sabastine Homuk, on Tuesday in Jos confirmed this development.
The vandalisation shocked Speaker Yakubu Sanda-led faction during a visit to assess the level of damage on Friday morning.
Saraki, in a statement issued on Saturday by the Head of his Media Office, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that if the issues that led to the crisis had happened in the first few years after the return of democracy in 1999, it would have been excusable as part of the learning curve.
The fighting ensued when the embattled Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and the lawmakers loyal to him were holding a meeting inside the assembly’s complex.
Eight members of the 24-member legislature had claimed to have impeached Ayuba at 6 a.m. on Thursday and replaced him with Yakubu Sanda (APC, Pengana Constituency).
The unusual sitting on Thursday morning, presided over by the deputy speaker, Saleh Yipmong, elected Yakubu Sanda (APC-Pengana) as the new speaker.
Two principal officers of the assembly confirmed this on Monday.
Philip Dasun, Chairman, House Committee on Information, conveyed the position of the legislators when he briefed newsmen.
The Speaker, who led other legislators on the visit, donated an undisclosed amount of money on behalf of the Assembly.
Ayuba gave the charge in his goodwill message to Muslims on the occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration on Tuesday in Jos.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the councils’ committees were appointed by the state Governor, Simon Lalong, after dissolving the elected council members in the local government areas
But Ezekiel Afon approached the tribunal seeking the nullification of the Gondina Sambo while Hon. Dicket Plang also dragged Alice Demlong to the tribunal for alleged irregularities during the same election
The Plateau State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed the list of caretaker committee members to run the affairs of…
The Plateau State House of Assembly on Tuesday refused to deliberate on the list of nominees submitted by Governor Simon…
Also speaking to journalists, the state Chairman of the APC, Hon. Lateb Dabang, whose party constituted minority of members in the House, said he was extremely happy that party supremacy was not just the interests of the legislators, but that of the development of the state
Details as to why Dabwan had to go were scanty but the former Speaker, who presided over Wednesday’s proceedings, said in a letter he read to the lawmakers, that he was resigning “for peace to reign”